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Now at my 3rd #Neurotrauma meeting here in Philly this year! Not presenting this year but volunteering and representing. It's been a fun and interesting experience on the volunteer end. #NNS2025

I've not been good about posting recently. Had a great time presenting my research at #NEURAL2025 #UAB last week. Super fun little conference, made lots of friends and all the talks were so excellent! Hoping to see event photos soon as I forgot to take any pics. @uabneurorms.bsky.social

Please read this and share widely, especially with people outside of science. Things are BAD in American bioscience right now and everyone needs to know just how bad - and dangerous - it is. apnews.com/article/nih-...

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

4 years ago I moved to Philly for graduate school. My mom is visiting me currently and showed me this picture of a moment between my dog and I from the move 4 years ago.

Improved my F31 score by 11 points from the first submission. Don't know if it is good enough for funding still, yet a relief to see actual improvement.

For some fun news, I was selected to give a short talk at the UAB NEURAL Conference 2025 in June. My talk will be about my ongoing dissertation project addressing limbic neuropeptides mediating sex differences in affective behavior after rmTBI during adolescence. @uabneurorms.bsky.social #NEURAL2025

My dog suddenly developing IBS (or maybe food allergies), pooping a bunch in the apartment and thus switching to the expensive prescription dog food diet is a sort of cherry on top of how this year has been going so far 🙃

Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.

In order to protect students from antisemitism at Columbia, the administration (advised by not one but two people who did a Nazi salute this year) is freezing support for students to learn science.

Some good signs from Stand Up For Science Philadelphia yesterday

So is there a way to know if my fellowship study section is actually meeting right now? The date hasn't updated for me but considering that I don't think it made it into the FR, I'm assuming they aren't?

This is a really good article. Clarified a lot for me.

Just finding it increasingly hard to even get out of bed every morning now because the existential dread is heavier than my actual weighted blanket

Very pumped to attend the @standupforscience.bsky.social at Philly on March 7th at City Hall! Sign up here to be kept in the loop for details. www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

People in PA: I just got a "FetterLetter" email from Senator Fetterman and this link to fill out for impacted federal grants was included. Please fill this out if you have had a federal grant impacted because of the funding freeze. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.

This is like the alternative plot to the movie Idiocracy, I do not understand what reality is anymore. "To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename it as "Red, White, and Blueland."

So many things over the last week just keeping me in a constant state of either anxiety or just anger that a meltdown over the mildest inconvenience might be imminent. I've been cuddling with my dog a lot and that helps some

Neuroscientists - your society has a call to action for you and a page for tracking action alerts. It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...

ATTENTION If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at [email protected]. I will keep all information confidential. 2/n

Is the federal spending plan in the White House right now actually that there is no plan, or..?

James was a PhD student in neuroscience at FSU, and his recent death was devastating for those who knew and loved him. He was extremely bright, motivated, and a strong advocate for marginalized people in STEM. This fundraiser is for his mom, who must be in so much pain right now. #neuroskyence

My Louisiana dog has loved going out into the snow ever since he first saw it after moving out of New Orleans in late 2020. The snow storm today was a bit rough but he was zoomin' anyway

No, I am definitely *not* going to check the status of this before March 6th. Not even once....

Huge congratulations to @cydm.bsky.social for her Outstanding Trainee Award from Drexel Neurobiology! I have the pleasure of being Cydney's co-mentor, along with @rameshraghupathi.bsky.social . Cydney has made the most of the expertise and resources of both labs to drive her own, unique project. 🥰

Grants are fun, who *wouldn't* love dealing with 21 separate documents to submit individually?

Is it normal to feel a large mental block towards working on a grant resubmission or am I just experiencing a mental slowdown with the season? This is for an F31, so I'm asking as a trainee experiencing this process for the first time. Have trouble motivating myself to even open my Word documents.

In honor of my recently passed friend, who was one of the smartest people I ever knew, and so supportive of my academic interests: I share the single pic I think exists with both of us in it, but has lowkey been one of my favorite pics for the last 8 years.

Just had a 6 political-leaning stranger profiles follow me today and I've only posted once on here? Whats that about?

As my first post ever on bluesky after joining several months ago, I'll say what a great time I had talking about TBI, affective behavior, neuropeptides and the PVT at #SfN2024 this year. #SfN #SfN24